The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1887-06-16
Proud Mrs. BrandIeth.

west lnulanS are enuOWeu Win inoi0
pride than is good for them. and she
was an instance Perhaps it was the
blacks, or tho climate. or living on an
island where there was no arts
save that which was constituted by
money. She was very rich, there was
no doubt of that and she had very
lovely daughter. there was also no
doubt of that fair-haired girl. with
large dreamy eyes, and fair skin. and
lips that suggested apout. yet broke
into the most enchanting OF smiles now
and then-not very often either per-
haps the girls life had been lonely. as
an only CHI Ids often is. and perhaps
she was half afraid of her mother. Her
happiest days had been her school
DAYS; she had been sent to England
for her education, and when she re-
turned to the narrow circl lie. and the
stiff, uncompromising mother, who
since her husband death had managed
The estate herself. and was absorbed in
The produce of sugar and the politics OF
Of government house. Alice felt lonely
and weary enough. Yet Mrs. Brandleth
was very proud of her beau tiful daugh-
ter, and waited serenely. convinced
hat the day would com G when wan
dering duke, or perhaps stray prince
sent over to improve his knowledge
of tropics, would fall in love with her
and insist upon laying his name, rank
and fortune at her feet. Having this
conviction strong upon her. it was pro-
| goking when one iine day Alice in
formed her. trembling enough, that
she engaged herself to Hugh Trevor. a
| young surgeon who was vainly trying
10 get a practice in the island-for the
population was more inclined to trust
its broken bones and epidemics into the
hands of older pract TONERS.
'.If YOU dare to think of such a
hing" she exclaimed, ''Ill leave every
penny away from you, and what is
more, l will let you starve rather than
give you shill ng;" after which COM
portable assurance, having no money
and no prospects, the pair prudently
rot married on the sly, and trusted to
duck"
Luck betrayed the trust and never
game near them, or only luck of the
Inc worst description did; so they re-
allied all they had. and, after one I'M
availing appeal to Mrs. Brandleth, de-
lermined to leave the West Indies and
)eek for better for tunes in England.
Il should so like to see my old
friends again; yes, do let us go, Hugh.
dear; besides. we can make a better
light with poverty there than here.
Alice said, thinking wistfully of her
lchool days, and little bitterly of the
manner in which her tropical acquaint-
ance had cut her since her marriage.
30 with two hundred pounds in the
world they set out for England.
ut is no use trying in London,
Hugh said. 1--WE should only be lost in
the crowd. and, allowed to starve
quietly. Wen go to some small sea-
side place, or country village, and set
mp, and hope for the best. Unless there
Is some one there before us, patients
must come in time''-a reasonable sup
position when one cons ders that, in the
long run, disease and death are never
lnconstant long together anywhere.
LET us 60 by the sea, then" plead
cd Alice; so they went to Drayton-on-
Sea, small seaside place where fisher
folks abounded. and where there were
hills around, with here and there
houses scattered about, all inhabited by
the probable patients of Hugh Trevor S
future.
There was no surgeon at Drayton-on-
Sea before Hugh Trevor went there,
but a railway came soon after they
settled there, and very soon after thai
surgeon-an older man, with long
experience-cam and practiced more
for love than fees, for he was we'll off,
and so the bright future the Trevors
were seeking was still far away.
''Oh. Hugh! what shall we do?" poor
Alice said, looking up with troubled
eyes at her husband. Their second
child was just born, and their last bank
note just changed,
"Never mind. my darling" he said
bravely, "better days will come yet
''Shall write to mamma" she ask.
ed.
NO" he said; but she did, only tt
have her letter remain unanswered.
II.
The first and most vivid memory o
anything that little Frank Trevor evel
had was the fishing village of Drayton
on-Sea; of the grand hills guarding j
and the great gray sea bounding it. l
always seemed to him as if there wer,
two other worlds besides the one il
which he lived, for every day-nay
two or three times day-did not thu
train pass by Drayton- on-Sea, coming
from unknown land behind, and rusl
by to some unknown land beyond? HI
| watched it come and go with a wonder
ing, thoughtful face many a time, ant
specialized on all the strange things tn
wh'zzing engine had seen. but h
was quite content when it had gone
} Then there was the sea. He and hi
! little sister spent half their tim
, down on the sand beach, watching tina
great world of waves. with nothing be
, yond save the sky which lovingl
touched it in the dim distance, and tn
white sails of the passing ships. Ever
morning for many and many lon
day. his mother came down to tn
beach with him and little May, and sa
watching the tide coming in or goin
out.
Mother" he often asked" where
: father?''
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